UNIFEM: Publications and Tools

Progress of the World’s Women: In Pursuit of Justice (Assessment)

2010-09-20T06:00:00+01:00

This report focuses on four key areas: legal and constitutional frameworks, the justice chain, plural legal systems and conflict and post-conflict. Drawing on tangible examples of steps that have been taken to help women access justice, the report sets out ten key recommendations for policy and decision makers to act on in order to ensure every woman is able to obtain justice.

A Manager’s Guide to Gender Equality– and Human Rights–Responsive Evaluation (Manual/Guide)

2011-01-07T07:00:00+01:00

This practical, online guide aims to help those initiating, managing and/or using gender equality (GE)– and human rights (HR)–responsive evaluations. It provides direction, advice and tools for every step in the evaluation process — from getting started, to preparation, conduct and evaluation use and follow-up. It contains tools to aid in the process and references to provide a greater depth of information on specific topics and issues.

Outreach: Stakeholder Forum Newsletter on the 2010 Climate Change Talks in Cancun (Newsletter)

2010-11-26T07:00:00+01:00

Outreach is a multi-stakeholder newsletter published daily at the Conference of Parties (COP16) on climate change, in Cancun, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010. The newsletter is co-sponsored by UNIFEM (part of UN Women).

UNIFEM Resources on Women, Peace and Security (Resource Kit)

2010-11-15T07:00:00+01:00

This collection of UNIFEM papers brings together a considerable body of analytical and advocacy work undertaken over the last five years, grounded in programming that has helped advance the women, peace and security agenda in policy and practice. It includes papers on gender issues in early warning, peace processes, peacekeeping, post-conflict planning and financing, and transitional justice. Together, the papers in this collection describe a range of ongoing efforts to strengthen the UN’s capacities to promote peace and prevent violence.

Ending Violence against Women and Girls: UNIFEM Strategy and Information Kit (Resource Kit)

2010-10-19T06:00:00+01:00

This information kit succinctly presents UNIFEM’s (part of UN Women) corporate strategy 2008–2013, including flyers on select major initiatives, such as the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, Safe Cities for Women and Girls, the Virtual Global Knowledge Centre, and other priority areas of work including the intersections of violence with HIV and sexual violence in conflict situations.

Women Count for Peace: The 2010 Open Days on Women, Peace and Security (Assessment)

2010-10-06T06:00:00+01:00

This report provides an account of an extraordinary set of 25 meetings held in the summer of 2010 between women peace activists and senior United Nations leaders in conflict-affected countries. It details women’s perspectives on resolving conflict and building peace more effectively, identifies issues of common concern across different contexts — as well as areas of divergence — and makes proposals for improving international, regional and national efforts to protect women and promote peace.

Pakistan Floods 2010 – Rapid Gender Needs Assessment of Flood-Affected Communities (Assessment)

2010-09-22T06:00:00+01:00

Following the floods in the Summer of 2010 that have affected the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Pakistan, UNIFEM prepared this Rapid Gender Needs Assessment report that chronologically maps gender-related concerns from the onset of floods to current relief camps, identifying gaps in information and flagging issues for upcoming stages of early recovery.

Thematic Paper on MDG3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (Best Practices)

2010-09-09T06:00:00+01:00

This paper identifies promising or successful experiences in country efforts to move towards achieving Millennium Development Goal no. 3 — Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women — and summarizes key lessons and future measures conducive to accelerating progress. The focus of the paper is on the national and local level; on country-led (rather than UN) efforts; and on a range of immediate and underlying factors that appear to be important or essential in enabling progress under differing conditions and country circumstances.

Transforming the National AIDS Response: Advancing Women’s Leadership and Participation (Manual/Guide)

2010-07-16T06:00:00+01:00

This publication is the second in a series of resource guides dedicated to highlighting strategies for incorporating gender equality and women’s rights into national HIV and AIDS responses. It discusses various approaches for advancing women’s leadership and meaningful participation of HIV-positive women in the AIDS response.

UNIFEM Annual Report 2009–2010 (Annual Report)

2010-07-12T06:00:00+01:00

The Annual Report documents UNIFEM’s work to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality around the world. The 2009–2010 edition highlights the efforts at the grassroots and policy level to enhance women’s political and economic empowerment, improve women’s safety and security, and involve the private sector in advancing women’s rights. It also commemorates the 10th anniversary of the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.

Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence – An Analytical Inventory of Peacekeeping Practice (Best Practices)

2010-06-30T06:00:00+01:00

This publication captures best practices and emerging elements for a more effective response by peacekeepers to women’s security concerns, especially in combating sexual violence, the premise of Security Council resolutions 1820 and 1888. It is also part of a broader agenda to improve the capacities of peacekeepers to protect civilians effectively.

Evaluation Report: UNIFEM’s Partnerships with Regional Organizations to Advance Gender Equality (Evaluation Report)

2010-06-30T06:00:00+01:00

This report assesses UNIFEM’s partnerships with regional organizations in order to affect progress towards gender equality at regional and national levels. It reviews existing partnerships and discusses areas for development, and includes profiles of six partners and the work undertaken by the organizations to promote and enchance gender equality.

Evaluation Report: United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women (Evaluation Report)

2010-06-30T06:00:00+01:00

This evaluation looks into the implementation and overall effectivness of the 2005-2008 United Nations Trust Fund Strategy in advancing the fund’s work on ending violence against women at country levels.

Evaluation Report: UNIFEM’s Work on Gender-Responsive Budgeting (Evaluation Report)

2010-06-30T06:00:00+01:00

The evaluation, split into three sets of reports, provides critical lessons on what conditions and mechanisms enable or hinder UNIFEM’s work in increasing gender equality in budget processes and practices. It also analyses UNIFEM’s overall approach to gender-responsive budget programming.

Democracy: With Women, For Women (Assessment)

2010-06-01T06:00:00+01:00

This publication presents an overview and analysis of the first round of grants issued by the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) in partnership with UNIFEM in 2006. The following pages probe, in a concise fashion, what was achieved through seven grants to improve women’s political participation in a diverse set of countries and regions.